Outside its native range, colonies introduced into North America, Japan, Australia, South Africa, and Europe have merged into ...

The first time Marcela Cosarinsky saw a nest of Atta vollenweideri leaf-cutter ants, it was the late 1990s and she was in an Argentinian grassland studying termites. Local children showed her a mound ...

The Butterfly Pavilion welcomed a new species of critter this month, and it’s already making itself at home. The new leafcutter ant exhibit showcases the lives of these invertebrates, who are known ...

You have one of two relationships with leaf-cutter ants. First, you’re a nature-lover, visiting Costa Rica, as you always do, when it’s a little too cold at home. You’re enjoying the house you don’t ...

Cocoa cultivation in so-called agroforestry systems is widespread in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. There, cocoa plants grow alongside other trees in the same area. The problem is that leaf cutter ...

Atta cephalotes soldier, the largest worker caste within the leaf-cutter ant colonies, extending her mandibles over an Acromyrmex echinatior worker. Acromyrmex echinatior major workers have a layer of ...

We have all been in that situation: The moving boxes are large and heavy, but we are determined to carry them all in one trip, even if that means we can't see where we're going. In the tropics, some ...

Celebrate Thanksgiving with some of the animal kingdom’s greatest cooks, including marshmallow-roasting apes and salt-sprinkling monkeys Jack Tamisiea In the tropical forests of Central and South ...

Ph.D. student Juju Dessert will explore the fascinating world of leafcutter ants. These ants aren’t eating the leaves they carry—they use plant matter to cultivate a special fungus in their ...

The potential use of a fungal treatment is the result of a 15-year study of leaf-cutter ants in both North and South America, and the sharing of data between the several academic instituting: Rice ...

A natural product made by bacteria helps thwart pathogenic fungi from destroying Brazilian leaf-cutter ants’ food supply. Researchers led by Mônica T. Pupo, at the University of São Paulo, and Jon ...